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Sojourner Truth

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born

Swartekill, New York, The United States

died

November 26, 1883

gender

female

genre

Nonfiction

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Sojourner Truth (1797–November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, "Ain't I a Woman?," was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

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Average rating: 3.90 · 916 ratings · 52 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, Dover Thrift Editions 3.90 avg rating — 829 ratings — published 1993 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Three Narratives of Slavery by Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	Book of Life 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Narrative Of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave by Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1970 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Faber Book Of America by Christopher Ricks (Editor), William L. Vance (Editor), E.M. Forster 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Narrative Of Sojourner Truth by Gilbert Olive, Sojourner Truth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth (As told by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	A Will To Be Free, Vol. II (An African American Heritage Book) by Linda Brent, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman and Other Testimonies of Women Slaves by Elizabeth Old Elizabeth, Sojourner Truth, Lucinda Davis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Sojourner Truth

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
― Sojourner Truth

tags: feminism

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“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
― Sojourner Truth

tags: humor , inspirational

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“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
― Sojourner Truth

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